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OCTAVES: 14 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: WITH CONSCIOUS EYES NOT YET SINCERE ENOUG
Last Line: THAT FLOUTS DEFORMITY AND LAUGHS AT YEARS.
Subject(s): WISDOM;
Though the sick beast infect us, we are fraught
Forever with indissoluble Truth,
Wherein redress reveals itself divine,
Transitional, transcendent. Grief and loss,
Disease and desolation, are the dreams
Of wasted excellence; and every dream
Has in it something of an ageless fact
That flouts deformity and laughs at years.




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